richard branson
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Why TV Is So Bad at Covering Climate Change
On Saturday, Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University, tweeted that she’d be appearing on CNN to talk to Fareed Zakaria about the record-breaking heat wave gripping the West. The next day, she announced her segment had been cut. “Bumped, due to billionaire going to space,” she wrote.
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Elon Musk’s Feet Are Not Popular on WikiFeet, the Wiki for Foot Fetishists
Elon Musk’s feet are not popular with the people who likely spend the most time of anyone on the planet looking at and rating feet, outside of podiatry.
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In Big Middle Finger to Bezos, Richard Branson Set to Become the First Billionaire in Space
Virgin Galactic founder and billionaire Richard Branson announced Thursday he will travel beyond the Earth’s atmosphere in a test flight set for July 11. If the launch goes according to plan, he’ll be the first billionaire in space, setting the record just nine days ahead of the first planned spaceflight of another obscenely rich astronaut…
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A Mysterious Bidder Just Paid $36 Million to Fly to Space With Jeff Bezos on July 20
Someone with deep pockets just shelled out $US28 ($36) million to fly to space with Jeff Bezos, the richest man on Earth, on Blue Origin’s first crewed flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle. Unfortunately, we don’t yet know who the mystery bidder is, although Blue Origin promises we’ll find out in a few weeks.